Quotes and Sayings About Modern
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Human beings seem to be far more autonomous and self-governed than modern psychological theory allows for.
-- Abraham Maslow -
I was a big fan of Kurt Russell growing up and I always wanted to be the modern day Kurt Russell.
-- Adam Sandler -
The modern woman is the curse of the universe. A disaster, that's what. She thinks that before her arrival on the scene no woman ever did anything worthwhile before, no woman was ever liberated until her time, no woman really ever amounted to anything.
-- Adela Rogers St. Johns -
Modern dancers give a sinister portent about our times.
-- Agnes de Mille -
We modern Christians are long on talk and short on conduct.
-- Aiden Wilson Tozer -
Modern conquerors can kill, but do not seem to be able to create. Artists know how to create but cannot really kill. Murderers are only very exceptionally found among artists.
-- Albert Camus -
You cannot make a modern apartment out of a traditional space.
-- Albert Hadley -
Are science and Christianity friends? The answer to that is an emphatic yes, for any true science will be perfectly compatible with the truths we know by God's revelation. But this science is not naturalistic, while modern science usually is.
-- Albert Mohler -
Speed, it seems to me, provides the one genuinely modern pleasure.
-- Aldous Huxley -
The advertisement is one of the most interesting and difficult of modern literary forms.
-- Aldous Huxley -
I have grown used to the fact that public repentance is the most unacceptable option for the modern politician.
-- Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn -
I am probably the biggest equity investor in the history of modern Russia.
-- Alexander Lebedev -
I like things to be modern and still have a bit of tradition
-- Alexander McQueen -
Everyone understands that in a modern economy - transparency, accountability, a working justice system are part of having a functioning, modern society.
-- Alexander Stille -
In Egypt, a civil state means a modern nationalist state that is compatible with Islamist provisions.
-- Ali Gomaa -
The self is the modern substitute for the soul.
-- Allan Bloom -
PILLORY, n. A mechanical device for inflicting personal distinction - prototype of the modern newspaper conducted by persons of austere virtues and blameless lives.
-- Ambrose Bierce -
The modern rule is that every woman should be her own chaperon.
-- Amy Vanderbilt -
Under his (Marc Chagall, ed.) sole impulse metaphor made its triumphal entry into modern painting.
-- Andre Breton -
I am a showman in the traditional sense, but modern, too. I like to use sets and lighting to create magic.
-- Andre Rieu -
Financial crises are an unfortunate but necessary consequence of modern capitalism.
-- Andrew Lo -
But in a lot of ways my poems are very conventional, and it's no big deal for me to write a poem in either free verse or strict form; modern poets can, and do, do both.
-- Andrew Motion -
The notion that a human being should be constantly happy is a uniquely modern, uniquely American, uniquely destructive idea.
-- Andrew Weil -
What I find most injurious to mankind in modern advertising is the constant appeal to material standards and values, the elevating of material things into an end in themselves, a virtue.
-- Ann Bridge -
To be left alone is the most precious thing one can ask of the modern world.
-- Anthony Burgess -
John Kenneth Galbraith and Marshall McLuhan are the two greatest modern Canadians that the U.S. has produced.
-- Anthony Burgess -
The Italian gangster thing has become a form of the modern-day Western
-- Armand Assante
